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From: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com>
To: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
	 Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
	 Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>,
	 Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>,
	Balbir Singh <sblbir@amazon.com>
Cc: <linux-doc@vger.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	 Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Documentation: fixups for L1D flushing
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2025 14:54:50 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <DDJU0415JEBQ.H2SD942NMDWX@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251015-l1d-flush-doc-v1-0-f8cefea3f2f2@google.com>

On Wed Oct 15, 2025 at 5:02 PM UTC, Brendan Jackman wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com>
> ---
> Brendan Jackman (2):
>       Documentation: clarify PR_SPEC_L1D_FLUSH
>       Documentation: fix reference to PR_SPEC_L1D_FLUSH
>
>  Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/l1d_flush.rst | 2 +-
>  Documentation/userspace-api/spec_ctrl.rst       | 6 +++++-
>  2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> ---
> base-commit: 0292ef418ce08aad597fc0bba65b6dbb841808ba
> change-id: 20251015-l1d-flush-doc-029f64d2b0d3
>
> Best regards,

I just noticed another issue - the docs say you get -ENXIO if control
isn't possible, but for L1D_FLUSH and INDIR_BRANCH you get -EPERM.

TBH I think this is a bug but it seems like it's still better to just
document it than change the behaviour.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2025-10-16 14:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-10-15 17:02 [PATCH 0/2] Documentation: fixups for L1D flushing Brendan Jackman
2025-10-15 17:02 ` [PATCH 1/2] Documentation: clarify PR_SPEC_L1D_FLUSH Brendan Jackman
2025-10-15 21:41   ` Kees Cook
2025-10-15 23:42     ` Josh Poimboeuf
2025-10-16  8:28       ` Brendan Jackman
2025-10-15 17:02 ` [PATCH 2/2] Documentation: fix reference to PR_SPEC_L1D_FLUSH Brendan Jackman
2025-10-16 14:54 ` Brendan Jackman [this message]
2025-10-30 14:00   ` [PATCH 0/2] Documentation: fixups for L1D flushing Brendan Jackman
2025-10-29 16:15 ` Jonathan Corbet

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